GEOTECHNICAL REPORTS
- Ground Conditions and Groundwater
- Earthworks and Excavations
- Bearing Capacity
- Slope Stability
- Foundations, Basements and Piles
- Pavements and Soakaways
- Settlement, Heave, Subsidence
- Buried Concrete
We prepare factual and interpretative geotechnical reports for a wide range of development from small private residential projects and commercial housing building, through to high rise buildings, football stadiums, schools, large retail warehouses, factories, agricultural buildings, historic monuments, water storage reservoirs, landfills, earthworks and slope stability.
Our clients include a wide variety of sectors including private and commercial developers, architects and structural engineers, local authorities, insurance, banking and investment groups.
Our reports consider the site location, topography and anticipated geology together with the information provided by the ground investigation phase and laboratory testing. From this we compile engineering exploratory hole records and determine the spatial distribution and load bearing characteristics of different geological strata across the site.
We can discuss the suitability of different foundation options from traditional strip and pad footings, raft and piled foundations, basements, and provide safe bearing pressures, settlement analysis, and design parameters to aid the determination of pile working loads. We also carry out investigation and analysis of the ground in relation to foundation subsidence and heave of existing buildings.
The shear strength, soil compaction characteristics, and presence of groundwater, are also considered in relation to slope stability and excavation support, including basement construction, basement heave assessment, ground remodelling and general earthworks, pavement design, and soil improvement techniques.
Chemical testing to determine the acidity/alkalinity and sulphate content of soil and groundwater enables designers to select the appropriate aggressive chemical environment class for concrete.
The nature of the geology and the results of soil infiltration tests can be used to determine the feasibility of using soakaways to discharge water into the ground.
